Stevens, Williams, Crane and the Motive for Metaphor

Rehder's study examines the use of metaphor in three of America's greatest poets. Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane are looked at in turn, their views on metaphor discussed and their use of metaphor in their poems analyzed. Considering Aristotle and Derrida, and taking account of recent theoretical work, Rehder offers an interpretation of why metaphor is fundamental to our thinking and to poetry.

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Au Pays de la Métaphore Someone Puts a Pineapple Together Smeared a Bluish Green No Ideas But In Things More Than the Merely Literal Burden The Logic of Metaphor Atlantis White Mythology Bibliographical Note Notes Index

About the author

ROBERT REHDER is currently Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He is the author of Wordsworth and the Beginnings of Modern Poetry, The Poetry of Wallace Stevens, and a book of poems, The Compromises Will Be Different.

Summary

Rehder's study examines the use of metaphor in three of America's greatest poets. Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane are looked at in turn, their views on metaphor discussed and their use of metaphor in their poems analyzed. Considering Aristotle and Derrida, and taking account of recent theoretical work, Rehder offers an interpretation of why metaphor is fundamental to our thinking and to poetry.

Product details

• Authors: R Rehder, R. Rehder, Robert Rehder, Robert M. Rehder
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349641512
• ISBN: 978-1-349-64151-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), B, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Poetry, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary theory, Poetry and Poetics, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature